Our boy is 13 weeks old and is so well behaved, 90% house trained, loves to play, and understands no pretty well. We've had him for a week now.
Initially we had his crate in the family room since that's where we spent most of our time but this resulted in lots of wake up's during the night. We've been crate training and doing the 2:1 in/out which has helped a lot. We moved his crate into our room at night and now he sleeps/rests for 6-8 hours at a time and will just wake us up if he needs to go potty.
We left him home alone for 2 hours in his crate yesterday and he had no accidents, but we didn't know how he behaved. Today, he will be home alone in his crate intermittently with the goal to be 3-4 hours at a time (we both work full time so this is the most realistic thing right now). I decided to leave our iPad on FaceTime so I could hear if/how he settled but the barking was incessant. He was fine when I left and was relaxed but 30 minutes later he started to bark. And now almost an hour later he's still barking. He finds a toy and squeaks it once or twice, then the barking resumes. He'll find something to chew, then the barking.
I know dogs bark/howl, but I'm mostly concerned for our neighbors and his separation anxiety. We live in a townhouse with one shared wall neighbor. I feel so bad that he's so loud but I don't think there's much I can do about it? He's pretty much fine when we leave the room at home, a couple whines and barks but nothing like this. Am I scaring my puppy?
I know it's very helicopter parent of me to leave the phone on FaceTime, but I feel like I won't know how to help him unless I know how much/when he's barking? Anyone else struggle with this? Do we just let him bark it out and give our neighbors a Starbucks card and an apology note?😂
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